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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.58
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#381  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmanticoresearch.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmanual.manticoresearch.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectManticore SoftwareSAP, formerly SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release20122013201719942010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.7.5, January 20246.0, February 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication based on Galera librarySAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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DatomicInfluxDBManticore SearchSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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